(GikII
East Asia)

With
the success of SoGikII (the Southern Hemisphere GikII) and the
continued strength of the regular GikII events in Europe, it's time
to bring GikII to South East Asia. Previous conferences have featured
many talks about Japanese, Chinese and Korean cultural influences and
have included attendees from Japan and Hong Kong. So, it's time to
bring the law, technology and popular culture mix that is GikII to
its obvious spiritual home-from-home of Japan.

The
conference will be hosted by the Centre for Business Information
Ethics of Meiji University in Tokyo, at their Surugadai campus which
is within walking distance of the (in)famous Akihabara technology and
cultural centre.

As
usual for this conference with the boring bits left out, talks on all
aspects of law, technology and popular culture are invited, but a
focus on SE Asian cultures and their impact worldwide are
particularly encouraged. Killer robots, the nature of time
measurement (and its impact on technology and law), the sexually
explicit imagery of traditional Japanese Manga art and its modern
influences on manga comics and animated films, tweets from a rice
cooker that wants to be your friend are just some of the topics from
previous GikII events. So, give free rein to your inner (law, tech,
SF, pop culture) geek and suggest a talk for GikEA.

Registration
will be free for speakers and for a limited number of non-presenting
attendees (preference will be given to GikII newbies for these extra
places).